	GNU Emacs availability information, 11 Feb 1987
	     Copyright (C) 1986 Richard M. Stallman

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GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
regard the foundation actually as its custodian on behalf of the
public, since all software ought to be the common property of mankind.

The foundation permits everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs,
at no charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions
which are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU
Emacs remain as free as the versions we distribute.  These conditions
are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public License", a copy
of which is required to be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.
It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this
file.

If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
order a tape from the Free Software Foundation.  We distribute Emacs
version 17 on 1600bpi industry standard mag tape in tar format.  We
also distribute nicely typeset copies of the Emacs manual.  See the
order form at the end of this file.

The file you are reading comes with Emacs version 18, which is
currently still in beta test.  When version 18 is officially released
(by March, we hope), we will also start shipping it on 1/4" cartridge
tapes in tar format and on 1600bpi magtape in VMS interchange format.

If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
distribution from host prep.ai.mit.arpa.  There are several ways to do
this; see the file `FTP' in the same directory as this file for more
information.  Even better, get the latest version of the file from
`/u2/emacs/etc/FTP' on prep.ai.mit.edu for the most current
arrangements.  It may also be possible to copy Emacs through UUCP; the
file `FTP' contains information on that too.

Emacs has been run on both Berkeley Unix and System V Unix, on a
variety of types of cpu.  It also works on VMS and on Apollo
computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
these operating systems.  See the file MACHINES in this directory for
a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested on, with
machine-specific installation notes and warnings.

Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that
what works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due
to such an incompatibility.  Since I must avoid reading Unix
source code, I cannot even guess what such problems may exist.

GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
License for full details), and neither I nor the Free Software
Foundation promises any kind of support or assistance to users.
The foundation keeps a list of people who are willing to offer
support and assistance for hire.  We will list anyone who agrees
never to ask customers to keep secret anything they are told
or given as part of the support.

However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it
reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you
have.  I will probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a
malfunction.  I may make an improvement if I consider it worth
the effort, but you should not be surprised if I don't think I
can spare time for it.  I hope to keep Emacs stable now, and
avoid putting much time into it, so I can work on other parts of
the GNU system.

If you are on the Internet, report bugs to
bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; on Usenet, use the address
...!ucbvax!bug-gnu-emacs%prep.ai.mit.edu.  Otherwise, phone the
foundation at (617) 876-3296, or write to the address listed
below.

If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of
GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver.  The same copying
permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else.
You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project;
if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial
product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.

If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been
worth to you.  If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and
distribute it as freeware, rather than following the obstructive
and antisocial practices typical of software developers, reward
me for doing so!

Your donations will help to support the development of more
useful software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs.
Eventually we will have a complete imitation of the Unix
operating system, called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run
Unix user programs.  For more information on GNU, see the file
GNU in this directory.


			Richard M Stallman
			Chief GNUisance,
			President of the Free Software Foundation


		Free Software Foundation Order Form
			  February 11, 1987

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		compatible replacement for yacc).

		Currently our tapes are of Emacs version 17.  We will
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		Version 18 tapes will contain a copy of the X window system
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		_______ Please hold my tape order until version 18 is ready.

________ $15	GNU Emacs manual (~300 pages).  These manuals are
		phototypeset and offset printed, with illustrated covers,
		GBC plastic ring binding that stays open flat, and a
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Thus, a 1600 bpi tape and one Emacs manual come to $165.

________  $10   GDB Manual (~55 pages, side stapled.)

________  $10	Texinfo Manual (~30 pages, side stapled.  Texinfo is
		GNU's structured documentation system, included with
		GNU Emacs.  This manual describes how to write Texinfo
		documents).


________  $60	Box of six GNU Emacs manuals.

________  $1	GNU Emacs reference card. Or:

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